The debian-private mailing list leak, part 1. Volunteers have complained about Blackmail. Lynchings. Character assassination. Defamation. Cyberbullying. Volunteers who gave many years of their lives are picked out at random for cruel social experiments. The former DPL's girlfriend Molly de Blanc is given volunteers to experiment on for her crazy talks. These volunteers never consented to be used like lab rats. We don't either. debian-private can no longer be a safe space for the cabal. Let these monsters have nowhere to hide. Volunteers are not disposable. We stand with the victims.
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Re: hot-site backup for master.debian.org

'Craig Sanders wrote:'
>
>On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
>> I like that. So, effectively we _have_ a democracy: If a majority
>> of maintainers/users dislike Bruce, they should just group together
>> and form a new distribution. 
>
>yes, that's what i meant when i said that real democracy is based in
>the right to say "No". Debian's a voluntary thing...there are no armed
>guards forcing us to work on it, so if we don't like it we are at
>perfect liberty to leave.
>
>IMO democracy is essential in non-voluntary associations (like
>countries) but superfluous and obstructive in voluntary groups.

Although I'm a supporter of democracy, this subtlety is true.
It seems many of us mean slightly different things by the word
"democracy".  Some of the proposals for a "benevolent dictator" sound
like "democracy" to me too.

>whatever we choose, i think our leaders should have ridiculous/silly
>titles. I really dislike the term "President" (mostly because people in
>the U.S. deify their Presidents)...i'd rather see a title like "Grand
>Vizier" or "Lord Pointy-head" or something equally silly.

I love this.  I want to run for Lord Pointy-head :)

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